DURING
1997 11,719 (1996: 8,730) crimes proven or
believed to have a rightwing extremist
background were registered of which 790
were acts of violence (1996: 624) and
10,929 other crimes (1996: 8,106). Among
the right wing extremist acts of violence
are included anti-foreigner and
anti-Semitic violence and acts of violence
against political opponents and other
right wing extremist acts of violence. The
number of crimes thus increased by 34
percent and those of acts of vioelcne by
twenty-seven percent. The proportion of
acts of violence to the overall total of
the crimes was 6.8 percent (1996: 7.2
percent). In sixty-seven percent (1996: 65
percent) of all the crimes they were
propaganda offences, for example
displaying the symbols of
anti-constitutional organisations (para.
86a, Criminal Code).

Disseminating
propaganda and use of symbols of
anti-constitutional organisations:

propaganda
offences 1994: 2,083;

propaganda
offences 1995: 1,601;

propaganda
offences 1996: 5,635;

propaganda
offences 1997: 7,888.

The
figures are based on statistics provided
by the Federal Criminal Office (BKA), as
of February 4, 1998.

Our
opinion

AS
THE persecution of national minded Germans
has increased, with scores of Germans now
imprisoned for their political beliefs or
what they have written, in a mockery of
the German constitutional guarantees of
free speech, Germany's notorious
"Office for the Protection of the
Constitution," (BfV) has issued the
above statistics.

The
BfV is the crypto-communist internal
security outfit which has persecuted
nationalists ever
since the creation of the German Federal
Republic, under a series of dubious chiefs
(like Soviet double-agent Otto
John).